Message from Voices of Classic Soul on #Juneteenth aka Freedom Day
#Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Cel-Liberation Day or the Black Fourth of July, is an African American holiday that commemorates June 19, 1865, when the state of Texas, finally, announced that the slaves had been freed (2 years earlier) by the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. We stand with those who…